Tim Rowland is an author and outdoors writer whose work regularly appears in the Adirondack Explorer, Adirondack Life and Cato’s Regulation magazine. For 30 years he was a political and humor columnist for Herald-Mail Media in Hagerstown, Maryland, and before that covered state legislatures in Maryland and West Virginia. His books include High Peaks, a History of Adirondack Hiking From Noah to Neoprene, and Happy Lonesomes, a guide to remote Adirondack hikes. His book Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War was a New York Times bestseller. His weekly Substack essay As the World Burns can be found at timrowland.substack.com